Radiolaria Siliceous Plankton through Time /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baumgartner, Peter O. (Editor), Aitchison, Jonathan C. (Editor), Wever, Patrick De (Editor), Jackett, Sarah-Jane (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2007.
• Series: Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae Supplement, Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geobiology.; Differential geometry.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Differential Geometry.

Radiolaria are a very diverse marine siliceous microplankton group that have existed at least snice the Cambrian to the recent. This volume gives a representative view of research topics discussed at the 10th International Meeting of Radiolarian Palaeontologists. The articles of this volume cover ma...

Table of Contents:

• Turonian Radiolarians from Karnezeika, Argolis Peninsula, Peloponnesus (Greece)
• Radiolarian Correlation of Jurassic Siliceous Successions of the Rosso Ammonitico Formation in the Southern Alps and Western Sicily (Italy)
• Upper Jurassic Radiolaria from the Vocontian basin of SE France
• The plankton turnover at the Permo-Triassic boundary, emphasis on radiolarians
• An online micropaleontology database: Radiolaria.org
• A new genus of Entactiniidae (Radiolaria) from the Upper Permian of South China
• Radiolarian faunal turnover through the Paleocene-eocene transition, Mead Stream, New Zealand
• Upper Permian to Middle Jurassic radiolarian assemblages of Busuanga and surrounding islands, Palawan, Philippines
• Influence of the Frasnian-Famennian event on radiolarian faunas
• Middle to Upper Permian radiolarian faunas from chert blocks in Pai area, northwestern Thailand.